Olabisi Omoniyi-Alake is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, where she majored in Public Policy. She served as the Ed Lorenzen fiscal intern in Fall 2024. For more information about Ed ...

Maya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She recently wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Examiner, an excerpt of which is below.

Lawmakers are considering the repeal of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced yesterday that the Senate would vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which passed the House in November.

The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: ...

Kent Conrad is a former senator, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and a director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget hosted more than 130 people at an in-person ...

New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that economic feedback may not cover any of the revenue loss and that TCJA extension might even add more to the debt on a dynamic basis, ...

From December 2023 to November 2024, the federal budget deficit totaled $2.1 trillion based on estimates from the ...

Congressman John Spratt, a former longtime Representative from South Carolina and a member of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, died Saturday at the age of 82.

The United States borrowed $624 billion in the first two months of fiscal year 2025, including $367 billion in November, according to the latest ...

The Medicaid program – a joint federal-state program that provides health care to low-income populations – is projected to cost the federal government nearly $8 trillion over the next decade.